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News about the East Village of NYC
Friday, November 21, 2008
Brazen entry in the per-man, per-hour moving wars
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This past summer, I -- exclusively -- was on the front lines covering the ugliest battle this neighborhood has seen since the 10 (or so) F...
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Looking at Life (via Google)
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Morning time sucker: Search millions of photographs from the Life magazine archives, from the 1750s to today, thanks to Google . Here are...
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More photo fun: Catching up with Then/Now
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As you may know, Times photograher David W. Dunlap has been revisiting some of the sites he shot for 1978's "The City Observed: Ne...
Can a borough sue?
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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rock-star husband Pete Wentz are now parents. They named their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz . Will he be friends with...
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Noted (and with apologies)
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I don't know why I do this. Anyway, this article seems to be floating around out there in the interwebs -- different sites, different da...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Weather on the 00s: It's not that cold out, OK?
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Was 32 degrees this morning at the usual time. Wind chill made it feel like 27, said the Weather Channel. On the bus, people from the neighb...
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Giving thanks one week early: Port 41 edition
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Thank God that dingy little corners of New York City still exist that house the likes of Port 41. To hear some people describe Port 41, you&...
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The MTA doesn't care how you get to the west side
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The MTA's grim 2009 budget proposal eliminates the M8, the local crosstown route that links the East Village and the West Village. ( Dai...
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This week's sign of the apocalypse
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Gene Simmons rang the Opening Bell at the NYSE yesterday. This after the clown did the honors last Friday. Oh, and the Dow dropped 427 poi...
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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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"Over the past two years, Frank Bruni, the New York Times' restaurant critic has mentioned the East Village in articles over 35 tim...
Don't laugh: This is how Catherine Zeta-Jones met Michael Douglas
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Have seen these signs several places around the neighborhood. Spotted this one on Stanton Street near Nolfolk in the LES.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I'm so wearing this to Momofuku Bakery and Milk Bar
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There's now a company selling the New York Cheesecake Head for Jets fans. (Or someone who really likes cheesecake.) As a response to th...
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Citysearch gets fancy makeover
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Citysearch busts out a new look . (It's still in beta...) As Cnet reports , "there's a more streamlined and Ajax-y interface, ...
That sinking feeling
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The Post gets into the dive bar spirit today, offering up its listicle of the city's top-10 dives . I can't say there are any surpr...
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What's doing on at the northern end of Avenue B?
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Been keeping my eye on the new development at 215 Avenue B at 13th Street that was once home to The Sylvia del Villard Program of the Robert...
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"In the late 80s and the early 90s everybody could afford to live in the East Village"
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From a Q-and-A with Moby in Black Book : People say they miss the old New York. Do you like it better now? Only the things that I miss. it ...
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A holiday classic
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A little holiday spirit courtesy of the East Village institution DeRobertis Pasticceria & Caffe on First Avenue. Since 1904. Read Jeremi...
Let's talk about rats
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Which reminds me...
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East Fifth Street update
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Wow, that was fast. This is all that's left of 532 E. Fifth St. Previously on EV Grieve: Demolition on East Fifth Street
Can someone please explain this to me?
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On 33rd Street near Penn Station. A taste of India via the Pacific Northwest? Or just haven't gotten around to changing the sign?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Gee, so much has changed in the last 12 years...
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For the post I did earlier on Hop Devil Grill closing, I Iooked around for information on that space's former tenant, Stingy Lulu's...
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Lordy, he's STILL talking about the Hop Devil Grill
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OK, OK...just a point of clarification after a conversation about the Hop Devil Grill closing with a friend. The Belgian Room , an extensio...
The way we were on 13th Street
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On 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. Someone hung a large photo of the what the street looked like before the A Building was co...
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What banks become
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First things first. There's a Vitamin Shoppe coming to the corner of 14th Street and First Avenue at the site of the former First Federa...
RIP Hop Devil Grill
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The Hop Devil Grill on St. Mark's near Avenue A is gone. Was way too bland and fratty for our liking, but they had some tasty suds on ...
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Public "Enemy"
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How long will Christian Slater continue to haunt Times Square now that his show was canceled last week?
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There will be hell to pay for this
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So that was a large group of ( ahem ) motorcycle enthusiasts hanging out on Avenue A Sunday afternoon. What do you think, some 50-60 bikes i...
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Still a landmark
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Good news from the City Room about the former school at 605 E. Ninth St. between Avenue B and Avenue C: A justice in State Supreme Court ha...
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